Antikythera mechanism, 2000 year old machine?

[darryl]

When they threw that thing overboard, the maker probably got thrown off with it. After realizing that it was flawed, I'm sure somebody was pissed- but I don't suppose we'll ever know the whole story. I'm in awe of the skill that went into designing and making it- but I'm not overly awed by the idea that the intelligence wasn't around then. All that's changed from then til now is the materials and machinery we have- the cleverness is something that I believe has always been a part of mankind. You kind of pull it in from the ether- it doesn't have to be part of the human makeup with the brain and all, so a simple brain could have had the same ability to be inspired to make such a thing. Not everybody would take their thinking in that direction- some people are amazing artists, which I can't explain in any physical way either. People don't paint any better now than they did way back then-

[J Tiers]

.........
If someone in 0020 found a smartphone manufactured in 2020 how would they describe it?

As a funny looking mirror.

It would not do anything, since as usual, the battery would have run out, and in 0020 no charger!

[A.K. Boomer]

Heck in 0020 it would not have taken a smart phone,,, I have a plastic bottle that contained 8oz of orange juice im saving to recycle,,, it's got a massive stylish green cap and the bottle is also very stout, it's got that triple thread design goes on with a twist in almost any starting position, the thing is a marvel and if taken care of would probably last 50 years yet we use it for about 5 minutes then toss it in the landfill,

I guarantee you if you owned this bottle back then you would reach god like status....

[reggie_obe]

Maybe the original, if it is the original and not the second, third, etc. iteration, was made prior to the earth's last ice-age, asteroid strike, shifting of the magnetic poles, some cataclysmic event that reset the evolutionary clock to zero.

[Mcgyver]

I guarantee you if you owned this bottle back then you would reach god like status....

sounds like the premise for an '80's Steve Martin movie

[A.K. Boomer]

sounds like the premise for an '80's Steve Martin movie

Good memory lol

[reggie_obe]

sounds like the premise for an '80's Steve Martin movie

Or this movie: https://moviesanywhere.com/movie/the-gods-must-be-crazy

[A.K. Boomer]

Just when a guy thinks he had an original thought

[Mcgyver]

Or this movie: https://moviesanywhere.com/movie/the-gods-must-be-crazy

too funny, forgot about that one. I'd say that makes 1984 about when Hollywood completely ran out new ideas